Presentations

Open Cut Examiner (OCE) Coal Mine Forums

• OCE seminar opening (PDF, 3MB)
• OCE Forum 2026 - Serious accidents (PDF, 3MB)
• Managing psychosocial hazards and fatigue (PDF, 2MB)
• HC HPRI ICAM Incident Investigation Report - reardump tiphead incident (PDF, 4MB)
• Mechanical Fluid Injection &  RS 23  Fluid Power Safety in Coal Mines (PDF, 1MB)
• OCE Forum 2026 - hygiene update (PDF, 4MB)
• GRM SATS project OCE seminar presentation (PDF, 2MB)
• Open Cut Level 1 emergency exercise 2025 (PDF, 3MB)
• NAC truck recovery presentation (PDF, 4MB)

• Mackay Quarry Forum (PDF, 19MB)
• Site Senior Executive (SSE) Coal Mine Forum (PDF, 21MB)

Occupational Health and Hygiene Forum - Practical Control Solutions

• Heat management and TARPs (PDF, 5MB)
• Longwall engineering dust controls (PDF, 11MB)
• PHMP airborne contaminants (PDF, 4MB)
• Occupational health update (PDF, 2MB)
• Coal inspectorate update (PDF, 3MB)
• Saraji KSN dozer WBV update (PDF, 2MB)

This animation shows why reporting incidents is critical to keeping Queensland resource workers safe. It explains what a high potential incident is, and why they need to be reported. A high potential incident (HPI) is a near-miss incident that could have ended in someone getting seriously hurt or killed, but for some reason that was avoided.

Watch the High Potential Incidents animation.

Trailing cable damage HPI criteria were developed to deliver consistency in reporting across all mine sites. This presentation shares information about the risks associated with trailing cables provides examples of incidents and reviews data from past performance.

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In October 2019, a coal mine worker seriously injured their wrist and forearm following the failure of a cylinder head plate when repairing a broken track link on an excavator. Analysis of the incident provides useful lessons about the management of equipment bought onto site and questions to ask about site suppliers’ testing and maintenance programs.

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Each year one Queensland underground coal mine runs a level 1 emergency exercise to test their readiness for emergencies and the learnings help the industry boost their preparedness to respond to major emergencies. This video discusses the learnings from the 2019 Cook Colliery and 2020 Moranbah North level one exercises. The session also discusses key learnings that have been gathered over 23 years of exercises.

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In this presentation, Mines Inspector, Theo Kahl unpacks the hazards present in excavator egress systems. Drawing on the investigation into the fatal injury of an operator, and the in-depth testing of egress systems of several leading brand excavators used at Queensland mine sites.

When it comes to measuring airborne exposure, one of the biggest issues facing the coal industry is chemical characterisation and the Safety Data Sheet (SDS). It’s important that chemicals are clearly identified so hygienists and safety professionals on mine sites are aware of what may be present and the monitoring required to measure them.

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Since the introduction of the Coal Mine Workers’ Health Scheme, there has been significant improvement in spirometry across the Queensland coal sector. Find out how RSHQ reforms paved the way to quality spirometry and learn about future initiatives including ResHealth – an electronic system capturing health assessment data in real time.

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High quality chest X-ray imaging and reporting is crucial for detecting issues indicative of mine dust lung diseases. An ongoing review of chest X-rays performed under the Coal Mine Workers’ Health Scheme identified several areas of improvement that are consistent across many imaging practices.

RSHQ has published A practical guide to improving chest X-ray image quality (PDF, 224KB) to provide technical considerations providers may consider when looking to improve image quality.

To further improve the acquisition and reporting of chest X-rays, in March 2024 RSHQ hosted a B-Reader Summit where radiologists and radiographers gathered to hear from leading Australian and international experts on the latest evidence and best-practice to improve chest X-ray image quality.

Recordings of each session delivered during the summit are available below to enable clinics to consider what image quality improvement strategies are applicable for their practice.

1. Mine dust lung disease clinical pathways guideline update
2. Evaluation of quality for ILO classification
3. Refresh on image quality grading and troubleshooting challenges
4. Image quality - A Medical Physicist's perspective
5. Reporting of incidental findings
6. ICOERD reporting

RSHQ conducts ongoing regulatory activity to ensure spirometry under the Coal Mine Workers’ Health Scheme is performed to a high standard. These important tests aid in the early detection of occupational respiratory diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and silicosis.

RSHQ found some areas where spirometry could be improved and held a three-part webinar series on the mandatory requirements of the 2022 TSANZ Standards for the delivery of spirometry for resource workers (PDF, 1MB).

These resources are provided to assist RSHQ approved spirometry practices deliver high quality spirometry in accordance with their obligations under the Scheme.

Access the webinar recordings

• Spirometry webinar 1 – Writing a spirometry procedure manual
• Spirometry webinar 2 – Performing spirometry quality control
• Spirometry webinar 3 – Requirements of a spirometry report

Access the case study recordings

• Spirometry interpretation – Case study 1
• Spirometry interpretation – Case study 2
• Spirometry interpretation – Case study 3

Improvements to respiratory health examinations for coal, mineral mine and quarry workers include higher quality chest X-ray standards, better training for health care professionals and a recognised standard for reporting results. RSHQ has a strict process in ensuring each component of the medical screening process is working effectively.

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The Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference is an initiative to promote health and safety in the Queensland mining industry.

The conference provides the industry with the opportunity to exchange information, network and foster proactive health and safety management techniques.

Queensland is committed to the development of renewable hydrogen production in Australia and is rapidly scaling up a hydrogen economy. In October 2021, the RSHQ’s Petroleum and Gas Inspectorate led a webinar to discuss the development of a safety code of practice for the hydrogen industry in relation to mobility.

• CMSHAC Gas and spontaneous combustion management forum agenda - 11 November 2025
  (PDF, 215KB)
• CMSHAC Gas and spontaneous combustion management in a longwall goaf forum - summary (PDF, 3MB)
• Introduction to Gas and spontaneous combustion management in a longwall goaf forum - presentation
  (PDF, 2MB)

• CMSHAC Fatigue forum agenda - 28 May 2024 (PDF, 263KB)
• CMSHAC Fatigue forum presentation - Fatigue across the Queensland Resources sector (PDF, 445KB)
• CMSHAC Fatigue forum presentation - Outcomes of 2018 fatigue management workshop (PDF, 2MB)
• CMSHAC Fatigue forum presentation - Road safety and fatigue awareness campaigns (PDF, 2MB)
• CMSHAC Fatigue forum presentation - Stop before you get tired (PDF, 3MB)
• CMSHAC Fatigue forum presentation - Rockhampton Forensic Crash Unit - Queensland Police Service (PDF, 2MB)

MSHAC Vehicle interaction safety forum agenda - 12 July 2023 (PDF, 163KB)